Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 93

My mother and the nobleman were alone in the room, when he suddenly noticed an old woman on crutches come limping into the courtyard; she came every Sunday to carry a gift away with her.

Who acts: mother, child, crutches · What happens: be, notice, come, limp, carry away · To what, where: room, old woman, courtyard, gift

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, child, crutches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nobleman	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nobleman	det
5	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 room	cop
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 room	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 noticed	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 noticed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 noticed	nsubj
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 noticed	advmod
15	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 room	parataxis
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noticed	obj
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
20	crutches	crutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 noticed	advcl
22	limping	limp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 come	xcomp
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 courtyard	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 courtyard	det
25	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 limping	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 room	parataxis
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 Sunday	det
30	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 carry	mark
32	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 came	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 gift	det
34	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carry	obj
35	away	away	ADV	_	32 carry	advmod
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carry	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 room	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	My mother and the nobleman		the room	alone property	tree rules
2	notice	past	child	a old woman		suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	come	present	crutches				tree rules
4	limp	gerund	crutches not said here		the courtyard		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Destination
5	come	past	mother				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	carry away	to-infinitive	mother not said here	a gift		with mother; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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